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Mr Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia/Institute of Particle Physics)18/05/2009, 09:30Following the establishment of neutrino oscillations using both astrophysical and terrestrial neutrino sources, we look forward to an exciting era when precision and high-sensitivity probes will refine our understanding of neutrino oscillations and elucidate their relationship to some of the "Big Questions" that confront the field of particle physics as a whole. Among these include the origins...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin)18/05/2009, 10:15Neutrino cross sections are often a crucial input in understanding a broad range of phenomena ranging from stellar evolution to core-collapse supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. This talk will present an overview of the role of neutrino cross sections in astrophysics and cosmology.Go to contribution page
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Tommy Ohlsson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))18/05/2009, 11:30In this talk, I will review non-standard interactions in neutrino physics, especially I will emphazise the impact of non-standard interaction on neutrino oscillations. First, I will give a brief introduction about non-standard interactions and what they are. Then, I will present what has been performed in the literature, what I have done in the field, and what could be done in the future....Go to contribution page
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Jose Enrique Amaro (Universidad de Granada)18/05/2009, 12:15We review the general interplay between Nuclear Physics and neutrino-nucleus cross sections at intermediate and high energies. As motivation for the more specific talks that will be given on the corresponding workshop sessions, we first introduce the general formalism of neutrino scattering from nuclei and define the observables of interest for nuclear physics such as response functions,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Costas Andreopoulos (STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)18/05/2009, 15:00Electron scattering and its connections to neutrino-nucleus interactionsTalkWe review how electron scattering data are employed by neutrino Monte Carlo generator groups so as to constrain and validate neutrino interaction modeling aspects.Go to contribution page
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Dr Carlotta Giusti (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica Universitá di Pavia,)18/05/2009, 15:30Electron scattering and its connections to neutrino-nucleus interactionsTalkRelativistic models of electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering in the quasielastic region are presented and compared. For inclusive processes the numerical results obtained with different approaches to describe final-state interactions, in particular the Relativistic Green's Function and the Relativistic Mean Field approaches, are compared. The scaling properties of the different models are...Go to contribution page
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Edward Brash (Cristopher Newport University)18/05/2009, 16:00
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Dr Artur Ankowski (University of Wroclaw)18/05/2009, 17:00Electron scattering and its connections to neutrino-nucleus interactionsTalkIn neutrino scattering off nucleus, the uncertainties of the cross section come from the parameterization of the axial form factor and from nuclear effects. The approach currently applied in neutrino physics is to extract information about the elementary cross section (i.e. axial form factor) from scattering off nuclei. To make it possible, we have to describe nuclear effects in the most...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Peter Bosted (Jefferson Lab)18/05/2009, 17:30Electron scattering and its connections to neutrino-nucleus interactionsTalkAn empirical fit has been made to inclusive electron scattering data on nuclei in the kinematic region $0<W<4$ GeV and $0<Q^2<10$ GeV$^2$. Several new high-precision data sets from Jefferson Lab were used to augment the existing world data set. Data on the deuteron and proton were used to obtain a fit to a free neutron target. Simple Fermi-smearing, Coulomb corrections, and a parametrization...Go to contribution page
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Maria Benedetta Barbaro (Universita' di Torino)18/05/2009, 18:00Electron scattering and its connections to neutrino-nucleus interactionsTalkIt is suggested that the impact of nuclear dynamics on electron scattering cross sections can be extracted from the data and used to predict neutrino cross sections using the susperscaling properties of (e,e') data. The merits and limits of this approach will be illustrated and discussed.Go to contribution page
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Dr Richard Gran (University of Minnesota Duluth)19/05/2009, 09:00This will be review of three or four pre-NuInt09 experimental puzzles and how experiments have dealt with them up to now. Rather than a simple review of past NuInt presentations, the focus of the talk will be the connection between models and experiment. Using these recent experimental puzzles, I will explore how and where improved application of theory can make a significant impact on the...Go to contribution page
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Hugh Gallagher (Tufts University)19/05/2009, 09:45Neutrino event generators are a crucial link between theory and experiment and play an important role in the design of new experiments and the analysis of experimental data. These programs have advanced significantly since the start of the NuINT series in 2001. In this talk, I will describe the evolution of this field over the last decade, focusing on the physics content of several...Go to contribution page
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Omar Benhar (INFN Roma)19/05/2009, 10:30Electron scattering experiments have clearly exposed the limits of the shell model description of atomic nuclei. I will discuss the dynamics leading to the appearance of strong correlation effects, and their impact on the nuclear cross sections in the impulse approximation regime.Go to contribution page
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Steven Dytman (Univ of Pittsburgh)19/05/2009, 11:45For neutrino interactions with nuclei, the primary interaction is often sought. However, this character is often masked by interactions of the outgoing hadrons in the residual nucleus. There are many fsi models available. This talk will attempt to give an overview of their properties.Go to contribution page
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Eliecer Hernandez-Gajate (University of Salamanca), Jan Sobczyk (Wroclaw University)19/05/2009, 12:30The interpretation of experimental data on neutrino-nucleus interactions at low energy relies on predictions of various theoretical models.This session brings together a number of groups working on the theoretical understanding of quasi-elastic scattering and single pion production and compares the predictions of their models for a set of standard conditions. Differences between the models...Go to contribution page
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jose udias (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)19/05/2009, 15:00A review of quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering will be presented, with emphasis on bringing together the knowledge (and language) of neutrino physics, electron scattering, and nuclear structure communities. Assumptions commonly made which simplify the theoretical calculations will be examined. Finally, an attempt will be made to identify places where improvement from either theoretical...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mark Dorman (University College London)19/05/2009, 15:35We present preliminary results from a quasielastic enhanced sample of neutrino-iron interactions observed by the MINOS Near Detector in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. From a shape fit to the Q2 distribution for these events we extract a value for the effective axial-vector mass MA which best describes that distribution. We discuss the very low Q2 behavior of this sample and the most...Go to contribution page
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Teppei Katori (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)19/05/2009, 16:00The mini-Booster neutrino experiment (MiniBooNE) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is designed to search for \nu_mu to nu_e appearance neutrino oscillations. Muon neutrino charged current quasielastic (CCQE) interactions make up roughly 40% of our data sample, and are used to constrain the background and cross sections for the oscillation analysis. Using high-statistics...Go to contribution page
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Jose Luis Alcaraz Aunion, Joseph Walding (Imperial College London)19/05/2009, 17:00The next generation of accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments will require precise neutrino cross-section measurements. SciBooNE is a sub-GeV muon neutrino and anti-neutrino cross-section experiment based at Fermilab, USA, that ran from June 2007 until August 2008 collecting 0.99E20 and 1.53E20 protons on target in neutrino and anti-neutrino mode respectively. Here we will present an...Go to contribution page
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Dr Luis Alvarez-Ruso (Universidad de Murcia)19/05/2009, 17:25Charged-current neutrino interactions with carbon nuclei at the typical energies of the MiniBooNE experiment (around 700 MeV) have been investigated. We describe the nucleus as a local Fermi gas of nucleons in a density- and momentum-dependent mean field potential, taking into account nucleon in-medium spectral functions. Polarization effects are included by means of an RPA resumation of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vladimir Lyubushkin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))19/05/2009, 17:45We have studied the muon neutrino and antineutrino quasi-elastic (QEL) scattering reactions using a set of experimental data collected by the NOMAD collaboration. We have performed measurements of the cross-section of these processes on a nuclear target (mainly Carbon) normalizing it to the total charged current cross-section. The axial mass parameter was extracted from the measured...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kyungsik Kim (Korea Aerospace University)19/05/2009, 18:10Within the framework of a relativistic single-particle model, final state interaction between outgoing nucleons and residual nuclei and Coulomb distortion of charged current reaction are studied through total cross sections of neutrino-nucleus scattering . The Coulomb effect is almost half of the electron scattering. Furthermore, to investigate the effect of the final state interaction, a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mohammad Athar (Aligarh Muslim University)19/05/2009, 18:30We shall present the results for the nuclear effects in $F^A_2(x)$ and $F^A_3(x)$ structure functions in the deep inelastic neutrino(anti-neutrino) induced charged lepton production on some nuclear targets which are being used in the present neutrino oscillation experiments. These theoretical calculations have been done by using a spectral function to describe the momentum distribution of...Go to contribution page
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Nathan Mayer (University of Indiana)19/05/2009, 18:30The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) is a two detector, long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that uses the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. Both MINOS detectors are iron-scintillator tracking/sampling calorimeters. The MINOS near detector has recorded the world's largest dataset of neutrino interactions in the 0-10 GeV region. This high...Go to contribution page
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Joe Grange (FermiLab/University of Florida)19/05/2009, 18:30The anti-neutrino data collected at the MiniBooNE project has many complications not present in neutrino-mode data. Purity is much lower in the sample due to so-called Wrong Sign contamination (neutrinos in the anti-neutrino sample), and there is an additional relevant scattering target in hydrogen. We want to fit the axial parameter M_A and pauli blocking parameter Kappa to our data to...Go to contribution page
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Mr Juan Catala-Perez (IFIC)19/05/2009, 18:30SciBooNE, located in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab, collected data from June 2007 to August 2008 to accurately measure muon neutrino and anti-neutrino cross sections on carbon below 1 GeV neutrino energy. SciBooNE is studying charged current interactions. Among them, neutral pion production interactions will be the focus of this poster. The experimental signature of neutrino-induced...Go to contribution page
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George Smirnov (CERN , CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland and Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)19/05/2009, 18:30An event generator of neutrino-nucleon and neutrino-nucleus interactions has been developed for the general purpose Monte Carlo code {\sc fluka}. The generator includes options for simulating quasi-elastic interactions, the neutrino-induced resonance production and deep inelastic scattering. Moreover, it shares the hadronization routines developed earlier in the framework of the {\sc fluka}...Go to contribution page
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camillo mariani (Columbia university)19/05/2009, 18:30In this poster we report on the measurement of the rate of the inclusive π production induced by charged-current neutrino interactions in the K2K SciBar detector, at a mean energy of 1.3 GeV in the K2K near detector. Out of a sample of 11,606 charged current neutrino interactions, we select 479 π0 events with two reconstructed photons. We find that the cross section ratio of the inclusive π0...Go to contribution page
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Ms Laura Loiacono (The University of Texas at Austin)19/05/2009, 18:30To further our understanding of neutrino interactions, it is desirable to measure absolute cross sections on nucleon and nuclear targets. Many past neutrino experiments have measured relative cross sections due to a lack of precise measurements of the incident neutrino flux, normalizing to better established reaction processes, such as quasielastic neutrino-nucleon scattering. Absolute...Go to contribution page
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Jaroslaw Nowak (Louisiana State University)19/05/2009, 18:30Using high statistics samples of charged current interactions, MiniBooNE reports a measurement of the single charged pion production to quasi-elastic cross section ratio on mineral oil (CH2), both with and without corrections for pion re-interactions in the target nucleus. The result is provided as a function of neutrino energy in the range 0.4 GeV < E < 2.4 GeV with 11% precision in the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marco Martini (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL)-UCB)19/05/2009, 18:30We present a model for neutrino-nucleus scattering in the energy region relevant for present and forthcoming neutrino oscillation experiments. The model is based on the RPA treatment of the nuclear responses in the quasi elastic and delta region. It includes also in a phenomenological way nucleon knock-out. It aims at the description in an unique framework of several final state channels...Go to contribution page
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Tina Leitner (Universitaet Giessen), Ulrich Mosel (Universitaet Giessen)19/05/2009, 18:30It is pointed out that so far all theoretical estimates of coherent pion production off nuclei induced by neutrinos rely on the 'local approximation' well known in photonuclear physics. The effects of dropping this approximation are discussed. It is found that in a plane wave approximation for the pion the local approximation overestimates the coherent neutrino-induced pion production on nuclei.Go to contribution page
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Dr Azizur Rahaman (University of South Carolina)19/05/2009, 18:30We present the prospect for a dimuon analysis at the MINOS Near Detector. A sample of about 10M muon-neutrino charged current events has been accumulated with the MINOS Near Detector. The dimuon analysis focuses on neutrino charm-production where the charmed hadron decays into a positive-muon. Estimates of signal efficiency and background, and the sensitivity to physics parameters will be presented.Go to contribution page
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Dr Davide Meloni (Universita' di Roma 3)20/05/2009, 09:00In this talk I analize the influence of nuclear effects on the determination of the nucleon axial mass from nuclear cross sections computed in the impulse approximation regime. We show that correlation effects, not taken into account by the relativistic Fermi gas model, sizably affect the Q2-dependence of the cross section but do not explain the large values of the axial mass recently reported...Go to contribution page
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Chris Walter (Duke University)20/05/2009, 09:20We report the development of a proton identification method for the \superk detector. This new tool is applied to the search for events with a single proton track, a high purity neutral current sample of interest for sterile neutrino searches. After selection using a neural network, we observe 38 events in the combined SK-I and SK-II data corresponding to 2285.1 days of exposure, with an...Go to contribution page
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Rex Tayloe (Indiana University)20/05/2009, 09:40MiniBooNE is an experiment operated at Fermilab looking for neutrino oscillations at $\Delta m^2 \sim 1eV^2$. MiniBooNE uses a neutrino beam produced from 8 GeV protons from the Fermilab Booster incident on a Be target. The Cerenkov detector located 541m from the target is a 12m diameter sphere filled with mineral oil and instrumented with 1280 inner and 240 veto PMTs. Neutral current elastic...Go to contribution page
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Hideyuki Takei (Tokyo Institute of Technology)20/05/2009, 10:05The cross-section for neutrino-nucleon neutral current (NC) elastic scattering contains the axial vector form factor G_A(Q2) as well as electromagnetic form factors unlike electromagnetic interaction. G_A is proportional to strange part of nucleon spin (Δs) in Q2→0 limit. Measurement of NC elastic cross-section with smaller Q2 enables us to access Δs. Signal of NC elastic scattering is a...Go to contribution page
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Dmitry Naumov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))20/05/2009, 11:00The OPERA experiment aims to observe tau neutrinos in the CNGS mu-neutrino beam using emulsion films packed into bricks based on the Emulsion Cloud Chambers (ECC) technology. ECC provides a spatial resolution of tracks and vertices on the level of a micrometer which is sufficient to unambiguously identify tau leptons produced in the primary vertex. An important background to a search for tau...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andrea Ferrero (Université de Genève - DPNC)20/05/2009, 11:25The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillations experiment, designed to improve the sensitivity to $\theta_{13}$ by at least one order of magnitude and to determine more accurately the ``atmospheric'' parameters $\theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m_{23}^2$. For this purpose a high intensity $\nu_{\mu}$ beam ($\sim$700~MeV peak energy) produced at the JPARC accelerator complex will be...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Michael Kordosky (William and Mary)20/05/2009, 11:50MINERvA is a dedicated neutrino scattering experiment which will collect data in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The experiment is designed to measure inclusive and exclusive cross-sections for a wide variety of neutrino reactions over a 1-20 GeV range of neutrino energies. The MINERvA detector is centered around a fully-active, low-density, tracking chamber consisting of plastic scintillator...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mitchell Soderberg (Yale University)20/05/2009, 12:15Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors are well suited to study neutrino interactions, and are an intriguing option for future massive detectors capable of measuring the parameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. These detectors combine fine-grained tracking with calorimetry, allowing for excellent imaging and particle identification ability. In this talk the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maddalena Antonello (INFN - LNGS)20/05/2009, 12:40On the way toward massive Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors for future generation long baseline neutrino experiments, a "physics R&D'' phase is in act: the ArgoNeuT detector (175 l of LAr active volume) is now going to be exposed on-axis to the NuMI beam at Fermilab, in front of the MINOS Near Detector. By taking measurements in the 0.1 to 10 GeV energy range, ArgoNeuT...Go to contribution page
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Dr Geoffrey Mills (LANL)21/05/2009, 09:00This talk will explore the impact of future short baseline experiments at the SNS and the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). The Spallation Neutrino Source (SNS), located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory site near Knoxville, TN, USA, will eventually provide roughly 1.3 MW of proton beam power on a liquid mercury target. The extremely intense beam of neutrinos, largely produced by pions and...Go to contribution page
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Boris Popov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))21/05/2009, 09:20The hadroproduction experiments HARP and NA61 (SHINE) as well as their implications for neutrino physics are discussed. Recent HARP measurements have already been used for precise predictions of neutrino beams in K2K and MiniBooNE/SciBooNE experiments and are also being used to improve the atmospheric neutrino flux predictions and to help in the optimization of neutrino factory and super-beam...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Sacha Kopp (University of Texas at Austin)21/05/2009, 09:45
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Linda Coney (Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL))21/05/2009, 10:10
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Joseph Owens (Florida State University)21/05/2009, 11:00Current global fits used to determine parton distribution functions (PDFs) are typically limited to the region of x below about 0.7. In order to extend the range of such fits one, encounters kinematic regions where target mass corrections and higher twist contributions become relevant. Furthermore, Fermi motion corrections for deuterium targets also become significant in this region. I will...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Eric Christy (Hampton University)21/05/2009, 11:25In this talk we briefly review both recent and upcoming experimental studies of nucleon structure functions at large Bjorken-x. In particular, preliminary results on the (nearly) free neutron F_2 structure function measured by the BoNuS experiment performed in Hall B at JLab will be discussed, as well as the approved extension of these measurements to even higher Bjorken-x and Q^2 utilizing...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Shunzo Kumano (KEK)21/05/2009, 11:50I will review nuclear effects on neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) and discuss the nuclear parton distributions functions (NPDFs). Due to the weak interaction, heavy nuclear target is needed to get high accuracy of the measurements. The nuclear effects on the structure function must be taken into account. These effects are already known by charged lepton-nucleus DIS...Go to contribution page
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Dr Un-ki Yang (University of Manchester)21/05/2009, 12:20
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Olga Lalakulich (Giessen University)21/05/2009, 15:00
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Dr Alberto Accardi (JLAB)21/05/2009, 15:25I will review recent progress in the study of parton propagation, interaction and fragmentation in both cold and hot QCD matter, with emphasis on Deep Inelastic Scattering on nuclear targets. I will highlight theoretical and experimental open issues, the connection with heavy-ion collisions, and the hadronization program at the Electron-Ion Collider.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Michael Kordosky (William and Mary)21/05/2009, 15:50I will describe measurements of the muon neutrino and anti-neutrino inclusive charged current cross-sections for neutrino energies spanning 3-50GeV. The data were collected with the MINOS near detector, a magnetized steel/scintillator tracking/sampling calorimeter exposed to the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. I will describe selection of a sample of inclusive CC scattering events, estimation...Go to contribution page
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Yoshinori Kurimoto (Kyoto University)21/05/2009, 17:30The next generation of accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments will require precise neutrino cross-section measurements. Especially the neutral current neutral pion production is the biggest background for the electron neutrino appearance search. SciBooNE is ~1GeV muon neutrino and anti-neutrino scattering experiment based at Fermilab, USA. SciBooNE can reconstruct neutral pions using...Go to contribution page
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Colin Anderson (Yale University)21/05/2009, 17:50We detail the analysis involved in the measurement of neutral current single $\pi^0$ production cross sections on $\text{CH}_2$ in MiniBooNE and report our most recent measurements for both neutrino and antineutrino induced production.Go to contribution page
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Mr Robert Nelson (University of Colorado, Boulder)21/05/2009, 18:10We describe the development of a fitter to reconstruct $\nu_\mu$ induced Charged-Current single $\pi^0$ events in an oil Cherenkov detector (CH$_2$). These events are fit using a generic muon and two photon extended track hypothesis from a common event vertex. The development of ring finding and particle identification are described. Comparisons between data and Monte Carlo will be...Go to contribution page
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21/05/2009, 18:20
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Tina Leitner (Universitaet Giessen)22/05/2009, 09:00A precise determination of neutrino oscillation parameters demands for an equally precise knowledge of the neutrino nucleus interaction process. Neutrino induced pion production is strongly influenced by nuclear effects. Their understanding is crucial since neutral current $\pi0$ production is a major background in $\nu_e$ appearance experiments, while charged current $\pi^+$ production...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Emmanuel Paschos (Technical Iniversity Dortmund)22/05/2009, 09:25In the talk I will present results on coherent pion production by neutrinos scattered off nuclei. The method is based on PCAC and uses helicity cross sections for the scattering of weak gauge bosons on nuclei including the lepton mass in the formulas. The process relies on experimental data for elastic pion-nucleus scattering, thus it avoids discussing what is happening within the Nucleus. A...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Christoph Berger (I. Physikalisches Institut derRWTH Aachen University, Germany)22/05/2009, 09:45Coherent production of charged and neutral pions in low energy neutrino reactions is discussed in the framework of the partially conserved axial vector current theory (PCAC). The role of lepton mass effects in suppressing the production of charged pions is included. Instead of using models of pion nucleus scattering, the available data on pion Carbon scattering are implemented for an...Go to contribution page
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Dr Eliecer Hernandez-Gajate (University of Salamanca)22/05/2009, 10:00Single pion productionWe present a model for neutrino-induced coherent pion production off nuclei in the energy regime of interest for present and forthcoming neutrino oscillation experiments. It is based on a microscopic model for pion production off the nucleon that, besides the dominant $\Delta$ pole contribution, takes into account the effect of background terms required by chiral symmetry. Moreover, the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Satoshi Nakamura (Universidade de Sao Paulo)22/05/2009, 10:15We report our recent study on the coherent pion production in the neutrino-nucleus scattering in the sub- and few-GeV region. In our approach, the transition amplitude is calculated by summing elementary amplitudes of a weak pion production off a single nucleon embedded in a nuclear environment. Therefore, it is of primary importance to start with a model which reasonably describes electroweak...Go to contribution page
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Dr Michael Wilking (TRIUMF)22/05/2009, 11:20The MiniBooNE experiment has just completed a measurement of the CCpi+/CCQE cross section ratio as a function of neutrino energy. In addition, a new event fitter has been developed that allows for the reconstruction of not only the final state muon, but the charged pion as well. By using a new particle identification technique, we are able to distinguish muon and pion tracks with an 88%...Go to contribution page
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Jaroslaw Nowak (Louisiana State University)22/05/2009, 11:45The MiniBooNE experiment has collected what is currently the world’s largest sample of muon neutrino charged current single charged pion (CC1pi+) interactions, roughly 46,000 events. The purity of the CC1pi+ sample is 87% making this the purest event sample observed in the MiniBooNE detector. The average energy of neutrinos producing CC1pi+ interactions in MiniBooNE is about 1 GeV, therefore...Go to contribution page
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Katsuki Hiraide (University of Tokyo)22/05/2009, 12:00Single charged pion production via neutrino-nucleus charged current (CC) interaction is a dominant background process for muon neutrino disappearance measurements in a few-GeV energy range, and thus needs to be understood more precisely. The SciBooNE experiment has ability to separate CC coherent pion production from CC resonant pion production by using a fully-active fine-segmented...Go to contribution page
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Dr Hidekazu TANAKA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)22/05/2009, 12:20The precise measurement of neutrino-nucleus cross-sections in the few GeV energy range is an essential ingredient in the interpretation of neutrino oscillation experiments. SciBooNE is ~1 GeV muon neutrino scattering experiment based at Fermilab, USA, that ran from June 2007 until August 2008 in both neutrino and anti-neutrino mode. We will present a search for charged current coherent pion...Go to contribution page
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Luis Alvarez-Ruso (Universidad de Murcia), Omar Benhar (INFN), Rex Tayloe (Indiana University)22/05/2009, 15:00The path forward: theory vs. experiments needsTalkIn this first topic of the session, we will invite an open discussion on the current situation in measuring and modeling neutrino QE scattering on nuclei. The session will start with a few brief presentations and then the floor will be open for general discussion. Here, we will specifically address whether or not we have a solid understanding of QE scattering on nuclear targets. Do we...Go to contribution page
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Emmanuel Paschos (Technical Iniversuty Dortmund), Jorge Morfin (Fermilab), Juan Nieves (IFIC, CSIC-UV), Dr Morgan Wascko (Imperial College London)22/05/2009, 15:45The path forward: theory vs. experiments needsTalkThe second topic of the session will focus on coherent pion production. The session will start with a few brief presentations and then the floor will be open for general discussion. Here, we plan to discuss whether or not we understand the discrepancy between recent NC and CC coherent pion measurements (i.e., the fact that we see evidence for NC coherent pi0 but not CC coherent pi+ production...Go to contribution page
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Dr Krzysztof Graczyk (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw University)Single pion productionPosterAnalysis of the single pion production data collected in the 12-ft ANL and 7-ft BNL experiments will be presented. It will be shown that successful, simultaneous fit (assuming dipole form of C5A) to both sets of the data is possible if the flux uncertainties are taken into account. The deuteron structure effects are taken into consideration. The obtained fits of C5A will be applied to the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Viviana De Donno (Dipartimento di Fisica-Universita' del Salento (LE)- ITALY)Poster sessionPosterThe description of the energy spectrum above the nucleon emission threshold requires a proper treatment of the continuum part of the single particle configuration space. The Random Phase Approximation equations, written in coordinate space representation, are solved in this work, using an expansion on the Sturmian functions basis. This approach can be applicated also when finite range...Go to contribution page
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Jaroslaw Nowak (Louisiana State University)Talk
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